great primer

Erickson shot the words at him staccato-fashion, as if they were things known from Great Primer days.

I saw all this as plainly as if it had all been printed in great-primer type, instead of working itself out in her features.

By 1544 a fount of great primer had been completed and a book printed in it, the Praeparatio Euangelica of Eusebius.

It was not until 1757 that he published his first work, a Virgil in royal quarto, with great-primer letters.

His great primer, for which he has been especially noted by some bibliographers, was very probably that used by Richard Faques.